Freddie Francis

Copyright is vested in the BECTU History ProjectFREDDIE FRANCIS, lighting cameraman, feature film director, interviewer Alan Lawson, recorded on 24 November 1993SIDE 1, TAPE 1Alan Lawson: When and where were you born?Freddie Francis: I was born in the wilds of North London, Barnesbury, north London […]

Francis Gysin

[…]e bit about your early life. But before you started your professional career in film. Where we were born into your parents. Yes quite well I was born in Lo[…]

John Shearman

[…]ker  0:06  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project.Unknown Speaker  0:13  John Sherman, documentary film producer, filmmaker, interviewer, Alan Lawson, on the 26thUnknown Speaker  0:23  of October,Unknown Speaker  0:26  side one.U[…]

Charles Cooper

[…]gets and engineering and so forth, and I felt this was really a tremendous shock to me when he died. I started - as far as going into photography and filmmaking, when I was thirteen. I think for my bar mitzvah I received two box cameras, two cameras, and started with photography and set up a dark ro[…]

Norman Warren

[…] off?NORMAN J. WARREN: Absolutely no. The only thing is my parents, both of them, particularly my mother, were absolutely just complete[ly] mad about films, you know, real cinema fans. My mother in particular. She would do anything to go and see the next film. She was always telling me stories about[…]

John Aldred

[…] sound engineer , sound recordist and dubbing mixer in the film industry from 1937 -1986 . Worked in order at: […]

John Aldred

[…]I'm afraid I can't remember. I believe it was pretty much of a solo effort. I mentioned moving images because further on I saw an advertisement for a film projector complete with film and battery for 12 s. and 6d so I had to save up all my pocket money which I think in those days was sixpence a week[…]

Stephen Peet

[…]f school activities and interests, of which I didn't have any. [00:04:22] But and this really is how I started. Perhaps something that led up to filmmaking, rather before that, let me think when I was about 12 my sister went on a visit to Germany. She saw advertised that, that week or that day […]

Bill Mason

Copyright ACTT History Project, Bill Mason, film director, film producer, recorded on 4th October 1987, interviewer Alan LawsonAL: Where were you born.BM: I was born in Edgebaston, which is the snob part of Birmingham on 9th November 1915 .AL : What kind of schooling did you receive.BM: I went to on[…]

Pat Jackson

[…] Jul 28, 2008 05:40 PM BIOGRAPHY: Pat Jackson entered the film industry in 1933 as an assistant at the GPO […]
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